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Bend staff previews 2025 Stormwater Master Plan, flags $80 million in 20-year needs
Summary
City staff presented the proposed 2025 Stormwater Master Plan and related comprehensive-plan text changes, describing an asset inventory, permitting obligations and programs that would guide roughly $80 million of stormwater projects and programs over 20 years. Commissioners were briefed on outreach and the adoption schedule.
BEND, Ore. — City staff told the Bend Planning Commission on Monday that a proposed 2025 Stormwater Master Plan would replace the city’s 2014 plan, update Chapter 8 of the comprehensive plan, and provide the factual basis for a 20-year capital-improvement program for stormwater.
“These include adopting a new 2025 stormwater public facility plan,” said Damien Srinick, senior planner in the city’s Growth Management division, opening the work session. Srinick described the plan as a compliance and implementation document that inventories pipes, outfalls and underground injection controls and informs a prioritized list of projects.
Lori Fea, the city’s environmental resources manager, and Austin Sameggi, senior project engineer, walked commissioners through the plan’s technical elements. The city’s dispersed stormwater approach relies heavily on underground injection controls — what staff called UICs — including about 7,000 dry wells and roughly 1,000 drill holes across Bend. Staff said roughly 80 miles of storm pipe and 36 outfalls…
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